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Super trawlers threaten Australian fisheries, conservationists warn
Just six of the 76 giant vessels worldwide are banned from operating in country’s waters
Australia’s ban on super-sized industrial fishing boats is far too narrow and places local fisheries under threat, environmentalists have said.
A report released on Tuesday by the Australian Marine Conservation Society and Save Our Marine Life says just six of the 76 super trawlers worldwide are banned from operating in Australian waters.
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IMF suggests global carbon price floors to bolster Paris pact
UN report warns one million species face extinction
'Revolutionary change' needed to stop unprecedented global extinction crisis
El Niño has rapidly become stronger and stranger, according to coral records
Ash dieback: Killer tree disease set to cost UK £15bn
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Biodiversity: what the UN has found and what it means for humanity
The global assessment report paints a dire picture of our effect on the natural world
That humans are meddling with the natural world, in ways that we often fail to understand, is no longer in doubt. From the near-extinction of many land animals – the elephant, the tiger, the rhinoceros – in their natural habitats to the destruction of forests in the developing world, the decline of insect life in areas of intensive agriculture in developed countries, and more recently the increasingly evident scourge of plastics in the oceans, our imprint on the natural world has become impossible to ignore.
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Senior Associate, Science Based Targets Initiative, World Resources Institute – Washington, DC
RGGI leaves door open for Virginia’s future ETS participation
Ash dieback expected to cost British economy nearly £15bn
Biggest cost of tree disease will be loss of benefits such as clean air and water, study finds
An invasive fungal disease killing ash trees will cost the British economy nearly £15bn, a study has found.
Ash dieback, which is lethal to European ash trees, originated in Asia and is thought to have been brought to the UK on imported ash trees some years before it was first identified in Britain in 2012.
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UK urged to take lead on biodiversity as UN issues urgent warning
Ministers announce report on economic case for biodiversity, but activists insist actions, not studies, are needed
The British government has commissioned Sir Partha Dasgupta, a professor at Cambridge University, to write a report on the economic case for biodiversity as policymakers across the planet are urged to step up efforts to reverse the alarming decline of the natural world.
Senior United Nations officials praised the announcement, which was made at the G7 environment ministers’ meeting at the weekend, and expressed hope it will lead to a biodiversity study that is as influential as the Stern review on the economics of climate change.
Continue reading...Human society under urgent threat from loss of Earth's natural life
Scientists reveal one million species at risk of extinction in damning UN report
Human society is in jeopardy from the accelerating decline of the Earth’s natural life-support systems, the world’s leading scientists have warned, as they announced the results of the most thorough planetary health check ever undertaken.
From coral reefs flickering out beneath the oceans to rainforests desiccating into savannahs, nature is being destroyed at a rate tens to hundreds of times higher than the average over the past 10m years, according to the UN global assessment report.
Continue reading...Australia's political parties urged to act as UN panel issues grim extinction warning
Environmentalists say Australia should be at the forefront of a global deal to save nature
Australia’s major political parties are facing calls to explain what role they will play in securing a global deal to save nature and the human populations reliant on it after a major scientific report warned a million species across the world face extinction.
The first-of-its-kind assessment by an international scientific panel convened by the United Nations, known as the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, warns species are declining at a rate unprecedented in human history, with three-quarters of land-based environments and two-thirds of the marine environment significantly altered.
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